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gave me ; and especially are my thanks due to Capts. Selliken, 

 Berg, and Horn, who put me up most hospitably at their 

 respective factories, and the latter in addition gave me a passage 

 in one of his whalers all the way from Yeretiki to Throndhjem. 

 Capt. Sorensen, in addition to other information, filled up, as in 

 previous years, some gaps in the table given at the end, of the 

 Finwhaling Companies and their takes in 1886. 



There is one more Rudolphi's Rorqual to be added to. last 

 year's list, obtained by Herr Gjsever, of Tromso; and Herr Goebel 

 on the Murman coast was credited with one Blue Whale too many, 

 leaving the grand total of Whales killed during the season the 

 same. 



In the following table the new names are as before, printed in 

 italics. The establishment at Baadsfjord is not exactly a new 

 Company, being the one which was formerly at Akerfjord on 

 Soroen ; Capt. Foden, the manager, was formerly captain of 

 Capt. Selliken's whaler, the ' Skytten.' 



In the following table the column giving the approximate 

 amount of oil obtained by all the companies is a new and I think 

 interesting feature, which I was requested by some of the 

 managers to publish. I have replaced the second "r" in Arra, 

 as the word signifies a Guillemot in Russian, and is likely to be 

 the meaning in this instance. (Cf. Alca arra, one of the synonyms 

 for Brunnich's Guillemot, which is simply two onomatopoeic 

 names for a Guillemot — Alka, Swedish (Alke, Norwegian), and 

 Arra, Russian. 



In the annexed table, the Tromso establishment being the 

 only one from which I have learnt no particulars as to the sjiecies 

 of Whale, I have divided the total of 22 by guesswork, and put in 

 the details in Roman figures, in order to arrive at an approximate 

 total of each species. 



Since the above was in print, a paragraph has been published 

 in the evening papers of March 28th, stating that the 'Vardohus' 

 started from Sandefjord for this season's whaling on the 23rd of 

 that month, and was wrecked during the night off Mandal. 

 "Only two men were saved out of her crew of about fifty." 

 I have written to make enquiries, but up to the present have 

 learnt no particulars of this disaster. 



